[PATCH] nfcsim.c: Fix error checking for debugfs_create_dir
Simon Horman
simon.horman at corigine.com
Thu May 25 01:12:19 PDT 2023
On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 08:55:06PM +0500, Osama Muhammad wrote:
> This patch fixes the error checking in nfcsim.c in
> debugfs_create_dir. The correct way to check if an error occurred
> is using 'IS_ERR' inline function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Osama Muhammad <osmtendev at gmail.com>
...
On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 09:03:52PM +0500, Osama Muhammad wrote:
> This patch fixes the error checking in debugfs.c in
> debugfs_create_dir. The correct way to check if an error occurred
> is using 'IS_ERR' inline function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Osama Muhammad <osmtendev at gmail.com>
...
The comment above debugfs_create_dir includes the following text.
* NOTE: it's expected that most callers should _ignore_ the errors returned
* by this function. Other debugfs functions handle the fact that the "dentry"
* passed to them could be an error and they don't crash in that case.
* Drivers should generally work fine even if debugfs fails to init anyway.
And I notice that in this same file there are calls to debugfs_create_dir()
where that advice is followed: the return value is ignored.
So I think the correct approaches here are to either:
1. Do nothing, the code isn't really broken
2. Remove the error checking
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